Amendments to the Chesterfield County Code of Ordinances will help residents and businesses save money in tax year 2017. The changes were adopted by the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors Wednesday following public hearings on each amendment. More than 700 small businesses in Chesterfield County will benefit from a change which permits businesses with less than $300,000 in gross receipts to pay a flat $10 fee for business license tax, rather than industry classification tax rates. The threshold will be automatically adjusted each year for inflation. This is part of the county’s new Small Business Jumpstart initiative, which provides incentives…
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CHESTERFIELD – Chesterfield County received more than 6,200 responses to its recent community priorities survey through the “Build Chesterfield’s Blueprint” campaign. This survey campaign reached out to residents and businesses to see what they felt was important in their community, and to solicit ideas to be implemented into the budgeting process in the future. Residents took an online survey, attended one of three community workshops, and interacted with county staff at more than a dozen community events in July. “This helps us as we begin to review operational, capital, and budgeting strategies in how we can best meet citizen expectations of…
CHESTERFIELD – Chesterfield County intends to apply for funds allocated for the Transportation Alternatives Program to improve or add to projects involving actual road building. The county is preparing projects eligible for funding through the program including: On-road and off-road pedestrian and bicycle facilities Safe routes for non-drivers (children, older adults, and individuals with disabilities) to access daily needs Conversion of abandoned railway corridors to bike and/or pedestrian trails Construction of turnouts, overlooks, and viewing areas Historic preservation and rehabilitation of historic transportation facilities Inventory/control/removal of outdoor advertising Vegetation management to improve safety, prevent against invasive species, and provide erosion…
CHESTER – The Chesterfield Center for the Arts has a new donor Dr. and Mrs. Baxter Perkinson Jr. stepped up to help the Center move closer to its goal. Dr. Perkinson and family will contribute to the center’s foundation building fund and pay for some of the operation costs once it has opened. Today, (Aug. 24, 2016), the Board of Supervisors will consider renaming the future arts center in Chester the Baxter Perkinson Center for the Arts. “Dr. Perkinson Jr. and his wife Elaine have pledged an extremely generous donation to the Chesterfield Center for the Arts Foundation. According to…
By A.A. “Cotton” Puryear The Virginia National Guard will broke ground on its new state headquarters facility on Aug. 16 at Defense Supply Center Richmond in North Chesterfield. The 102,000 square foot facility will be built on a 13.6-acre site in the northern section of DSCR, cost approximately $30 million and construction should be completed by February 2018. It will provide workspace for the Adjutant General of Virginia, the Virginia National Guard Joint Staff and Air National Guard Staff currently located at Mullins Readiness Center in Sandston. “In the more than 409-year history of the Virginia National Guard, this is…
Chesterfield County has received two achievement awards from the Virginia Association of Counties (VACo). The VACo Achievement Awards is a competitive program open to local government members of the association. Held annually, it recognizes local government programs in awards criteria that include innovation, cooperation, and model practices. Chesterfield County’s winning programs follow. Library as Lifeboat: ALibrary and Emergency Management Partnership – Prior to 2011, Chesterfield County employed a standard emergency management approach that placed the primary responsibility for the community’s emergency response on the police, sheriff, and fire departments, on parks and recreation, and on general services. While not a…
The communities of Enon Elementary and Beulah Elementary are gathering to help decide how their new school buildings will look. Community members will see the school design, review options for how the exterior of their school might look, and vote on the facade they prefer during these meetings: The Enon Elementary meeting will take place 6:30-8 p.m., Aug. 15 in the school’s library, 2001 E. Hundred Road. An additional topic at this meeting will be the re-evaluation of the location selected as the site of the new Enon Elementary. Previously, the new school was to be built on a different…
Chesterfield is buying into the idea of pedestrian access for citizens across the county. Old Centralia Road is slated for a sidewalk from Castlebury Drive to Glen Oaks Court. Sidewalks have already been constructed on Cogbill, Osborne, and Harrowgate roads. Old Centralia and Osborne roads have had partial sidewalks for years, but they end abruptly; some calling them sidewalks to nowhere. But a movement inspired by safety, health issues, and connectivity is driving the need for more pedestrian amenities. The Old Centralia Road sidewalk when completed will be about a half mile. The Chesterfield Department of Transportation (CDOT) has procured…
Have you said, “I can’t believe what they’re doing up there,” referring to how Chesterfield County is spending tax dollars? This year’s county budget and the budgets extending out for five years could be just a little different in how it is constructed. The Chesterfield Budget and Management Department is now in the process of gathering information from citizens on what they think are the best ways to spend tax dollars, both for county administration and schools. “Both boards (supervisors and school board members) have come together to see what the community wants and doesn’t want,” said Matt Harris, assistant…
The Chesterfield County School Board on July 12 adopted a prototype design for the four elementary schools that will be built in the next 32 months. Using the same design for multiple schools will save money and time as Chesterfield County Public Schools moves forward to build a new elementary school (Creekside) in the Midlothian District and build replacements for Beulah, Enon, and Matoaca elementary schools. The construction is part of the bond package approved by Chesterfield County voters in 2013. Nine companies submitted design proposals, and RRMM Architects won the contract with a one-story design of almost 85,000 square…